Monday evening, Canal 33 offers us the opportunity to travel around the world accompanying Tom Waes, one of the most popular television figures in Belgium. You can catch up on some of his Unusual Trips on the 3Cat platform. Season 7 is complete, with episodes dedicated to Dubai, São Paulo, Bombay, Nairobi, London, or Los Angeles, among others. And from season 5, you can still catch the three magnificent episodes of a long journey that crosses Japan from south to north over three weeks. It's worth it. If you're not flying anywhere this summer, it's an excuse to discover the world. And if you happen to be in one of his destinations, you'll find options not listed in the usual guides.

The cave is never happy. They roared so much against the disintegration of Spain by separatist movements, and now that they have the opportunity to demographically consolidate a state with a negative natural growth balance with measures such as the regularization of immigrants and the 'ley de nets', everything is problems. Regarding the newcomers, there's no need to overthink it: old xenophobia is mixed with the legitimate debate about integration, although the harsh (and perverse) reality is that entire sectors of the Spanish economy would collapse if the import of cheap labor were stopped. The 'ley de nets' offers more possibilities, because the PP had supported it. It is true that an instruction has now been introduced that expands cases and allows for easier naturalization. If before it was necessary to justify having suffered family exile, now economic reasons can also be invoked for having left Spain at the time. But behind these economic exiles there was often also the hand of Francoism, which favored its supporters with tobacconists and lottery agencies while silencing and repressing those who returned. Your Face Tomorrow, by Javier Marías, is a very good novel for understanding the ostracism to which many republicans, like the author's father, were subjected.

In 2017, five women accused comedian Louis C.K. of sexual harassment. They accused him of masturbating in front of them in a professional context. The stand-up comedian admitted it in a statement and expressed his remorse for the events. From that moment on, the distributor of his new film canceled the premiere of the film and Stephen Colbert canceled the invitation to interview him on his show. HBO removed his stand-up specials and the magnificent sitcomLucky Louie from its catalog.

Iñaki Gabilondo has found himself embroiled in a controversy as the host of the program La gran aventura de la lengua española, on La1, by stating that Spanish was never imposed in Latin America through conquest. It is true that the great Hispanization of these territories came later, when, once they became republics, they opted to promote a state language, and Spanish was the best positioned considering its implementation in structures such as administration, school, or church. I wonder why, of course. Perhaps because from 1550 to 1782, the different kings issued a minimum of 32 decrees that urged education in Spanish for indigenous communities? The will to Hispanize was unequivocal, as a way of imposing religion, even though the harsh reality was that there were not enough personnel to do so, so in the end the priests sent to the New World understood that it was more practical for them to learn the local languages.

Tatxo Benet definitively separates from Mediapro after reaching an agreement whereby he has sold the 5% of shares he still held in Southwind, the audiovisual company's main shareholder. In this way, the group's co-founder ceases to have any relationship with the company, and in a statement he pointed out that the operation "means the total and definitive separation" of the entrepreneur from Lleida.

After the big presentations in June and learning what the future of video games will offer, we look at the shorter term and review the most imminent releases. Action, rhythm, nostalgia and fantastic creatures: there's something for everyone! And we haven't forgotten about the frantic trains of Denshattack!, by the Catalan developers Undercoders, which were supposed to arrive in June, but have suffered delays until this July 15.

The earthquake catastrophe in Venezuela has turned the news into a loop of very distressing epic rescue operations. Also of scenes of heartbreaking pain from people who know they will not find their relatives alive or who have found them too late. How many rescues are considered necessary to show in a single newscast for the viewer to understand the dimension of the tragedy? One of the differentiating factors between private and public channels is the ability to broaden the perspective. In a context of chaos, ordering information and offering a narrative that portrays reality with the complexity it deserves is what the newscasts of TV3 and TVE are doing, where correspondents and special envoys specify locations and show circumstances tangential to the disaster: the situation in hospitals, the functioning of emergency services, the saturation of cemeteries or neighborhood initiatives to offer solutions in the face of a lack of food or communication systems. Private channels, on the other hand, emphasize the most emotional aspects, especially related to the suffering associated with the countdown to find survivors under the rubble. It is symptomatic how these images are offered to the audience: always with the ambient sound of the scene, with many shouts, noise of machines and sirens in the background. These are videos recorded in a context of great tension and anguish, and therefore, they have a morbid component due to the alarm they arouse.

As agreed on June 18, this Tuesday the workers of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio have carried out a partial strike to denounce that the management of public media is not complying with the agreement, among other issues. As a form of protest, the workers have decided to stop for ten minutes at the beginning of Telenotícies in the case of television (from 2:30 p.m. to 2:40 p.m., and from 9 p.m. to 9:10 p.m.) and at the beginning of Catalunya migdia (from 2 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.) and Tot Costa (from 7 p.m. to 7:10 p.m.) on Catalunya Ràdio.

The yellow jersey of linguistic hypocrisy is put on for another day The World, with the article: “Illa imposes Catalan at the Tour: ‘It must be your initial language.’”. They are referring to the Volunteer Manual drafted by the Generalitat, which explains that Catalan should be used in the first instance. This is presented by the newspaper with the usual coercive verbs: “imposes,” “forces,” and even mentions the “linguistic doctrine of marginalizing Spanish.” One only needs to walk around the city for ten minutes to know that if there is a language being sidelined, it is not Bertín Osborne’s, but the newspaper applies the same policy as with immersion in schools, which is to maliciously confuse what a document says with harsh reality. Because the abstract volunteer who reads the manual will end up doing what their personal triumph arch dictates, since Salvador Illa – as they personalize it in the headline, we will do so here too – will not be chasing after these collaborators to check if they have prioritized Catalan. Furthermore, as is finally recognized The World in the midst of his convoluted prose of grievances, “the Generalitat grants volunteers the possibility of 'adapting to the interlocutor's language'”. Big fans of the use of grant as a verb, in this sentence, full of intention.

At the end of 2011, Jordi Basté managed to lead morning audiences by a margin of only 1,000 listeners. Since then, he has maintained the top spot, with a tendency to distance himself from Catalunya Ràdio. The EGM wave that was made public this Tuesday marks another step in this direction: if in July 2025 there was a difference of 283,000 listeners between Basté and Ricard Ustrell, on this occasion it is 287,000. However, the gap has considerably narrowed compared to the 352,000 followers there were in the previous wave, in April (comparisons, however, are made looking back a year, as radio has a strong seasonal component). In this way, El món a RAC 1 improves by 33,000 listeners and climbs to 745,000, while El matí de Catalunya Ràdio adds 29,000, jumping from 429,000 to 458,000. It is the second-best figure for the Sabadell native, who achieves the best rating for the public broadcaster's morning magazine since the 2018-2019 season, although the bulk of the radio's audience growth has been capitalized by his rival. If looking at entire seasons, the average gap will have been 327,000 followers, while in the previous one it was 249,000.

L’ARA continues to bet on innovation and today launches the beta version of Goita, an assistant that will help discover the best cultural and gastronomic proposals in Barcelona, leveraging the conversational potential of artificial intelligence. The new tool combines technology, reliable sources, and editorial criteria to discover what to do in the city quickly and personalized.

Among climate deniers, a very stubborn strain is the one that clings to a particularly hot summer in the past to say that, you see, it has always been hot, some years less, some years more. This is not only done by the stereotypical brother-in-law caricature – brilliantly portrayed by Jordi Soriano in "Polònia" – but also by supposedly serious media outlets that subscribe to this practice. This is the case with the Telegraph, which has been on a worrying downward trend for some years. The United Kingdom is experiencing a hellish week by its standards, with temperatures exceeding 37 degrees, and the newspaper published an article titled “The heatwave hysterics wouldn’t have lasted a day in 1976”. They have chosen to highlight what was a particularly fiery summer to deny climate change, despite the avalanche of data suggesting that, beyond a specific record, the temperature is increasing at lightning speed. In fact, the five hottest summers, globally, are not that 1976, but all belong to the 21st century. And in the 30 years between 1970 and 1999, there were only three summers in which Britons exceeded 35 degrees, while in the 26-odd years we have had since then, there have already been nine in which this temperature has been reached. The same Telegraph, when the historic record of 40.3 degrees was broken in Coningsby in 2022, it rushed to publish an article saying that there were also scorching summers in the Edwardian era. Or we could also talk about that cover of The Spectator from 2019, which showed a drawing of planet Earth having a drink on the beach, with the headline “Relax, global warming is a myth”.

Sunday, 30 Minuts provided a diagnosis of the AP-7 situation. The title, AP-7, on the edge, fell short of defining how the experience of driving on it has transformed since the road became free. As they sarcastically say on Toni Clapés' Versió RAC1, driving on it has become an experience akin to the movie Mad Max. It was about time journalism paid specific attention to this highway, because the degeneration it suffers is not being denounced as it should be, beyond simply reporting the traffic jams and accidents that occur there day in and day out. We are normalizing a disaster. 30 Minuts warned that the ministry had not wanted to participate in the report, a fact that betrays the neglect the AP-7 receives and the discomfort caused by the lack of investment.

In a month when many people already have holidays on their minds, platforms are opting for light entertainment, with series that have few pretensions beyond entertaining the viewer. We review the most outstanding titles of July.

Among the different subgenres of clickbait fishing, one of the crudest is the one that profits from the death of (relatively) unknown people. I was thinking about this in light of this headline from El Nacional: “Commotion over the tragic death of a beloved presenter and actress, hit by a train. She was only 54 years old”. This refers to Ernestina Pais, who had her peak over 20 years ago, in the Argentinian version of Caiga quien caiga. The media explain that she was now participating in the umpteenth edition of MasterChef. In other words, she was someone of no relevance to the Catalan or Spanish reader. But the formulation of the headline is constructed to generate the incógnita of whether it is someone the reader knows. This same headline, stating her name — which in other times would have been an essential requirement — would generate two and a half clicks. Every week there are several similar pieces, and the practice extends not only to experts in trawling but also to prestigious publications. Like when a news report is made about the passing of an actor who appeared in two episodes of Friends; this is trafficking in the morbid fascination with the death of someone you know your audience doesn't care about — it's blunt to put it this way, but we're among functional adults — with the bait of invoking a known brand. But when you don't even have that, a “commotion” and a “beloved” fix it, even if the reader later says an “oh, right” when they read a name or see a face that doesn't even remotely ring a bell. 

The 3Cat platform has premiered two new episodes of the documentary shorts "Point of no return, by Raül Gallego. Winner of an international Emmy last year, the first episode of this season, Europe: young people and the far-right tide, transports us to the core of the ultra wave that has been so talked about in recent years. And here comes into play the second chapter: Europe: young and anti-fascist, which delves into the youth movements that have organized to confront it. The search for these realities goes beyond Catalonia and is taken to Spain, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium to highlight shared circumstances that are progressively expanding.

The United Kingdom's ministers plan to implement a series of measures to ensure that traditional media outlets appear more prominently in social media feeds. They adopt the arguments of the BBC and other public broadcasters who claim that their content is drowned out by the vast tide of content creators who often spread misinformation. Furthermore, the enormous volume of videos produced in the United States in English makes it difficult for British offerings to stand out. (If the UK, with its splendidly healthy English, is worried... let's stop for ten seconds to think about what state of panic we who worry about Catalan should enter).The idea is as commendable and reasonable on paper as it is impossible to apply in practice. Perhaps it works in the United Kingdom, but here it would be impossible to import. Because even assuming – and that is a big assumption – that the tech giants would allow a government to tinker with their algorithm, the very delicate question of how a medium is given the seal of quality necessary to enjoy this boost in views and how it is denied to the one next to it would need to be resolved. If a government does it, it opens the door to ideological arbitrariness. Can anyone imagine the PSOE deciding who gets on the list? Or a government of the PP and Vox? Would the list be redefined with each change of government? And if it is the sector that validates the media, it opens the door to spurious corporatism, first, and then to partisan biases: one only needs to see who sits in certain television talk shows or which awards the majority of guild entities give to friends, acquaintances and acquaintances to confirm that they are anything but neutral. We will have to follow this British proposal with attention, therefore, but also with skepticism, to see if it comes to fruition. That is, if a prime minister lasts more than ten months, of course.

Since September 2017, Alicia González Laá is Eva, the most innocent and love-struck member of the cast of Com si fos ahir, TV3's daily soap opera. After having appeared in other series such as Nissaga de poder or Ventdelplà, the actress has become one of the essential faces of Catalan afternoon television.

Telegraphically, as the background could fill the space of three Stop the presses: Alfaguara, Prisa's publishing house, publishes a book by Daniel Verdú, a journalist from El País, about the mysterious deceased editor of the magazine Jot Down, who operated under a pseudonym and electronically due to the agoraphobia she suffered from. It is said that she managed to get the best male signatures by sending suggestive photos of her stunning hairdresser and thus saved herself from paying for collaborations at market price. If the reader is still wading through X, they will have seen that this social network has been colonized for weeks by this serial – of a chicken run – with mutual accusations between one and another.

Thursday the Polònia said goodbye to the season with a special titled A death at dessert, which aimed to be a parody of A corpse for dessert. In fact, Robert Moore's 1976 film was already a humorous reinterpretation of classic detective films where a millionaire invites five detectives to dinner with the promise of a fortune to whoever discovers the perpetrator of a murder that will occur that very night. The political satire program abandoned the sketch structure to elaborate on a rather weak pseudo-telefilm where Toni Soler invited various characters from Polònia to an elegant farewell dinner to inform them that he would no longer count on them because next season they would be replaced by protagonists created with artificial intelligence. The disappointment of those affected led to the murder of Toni Soler, and the clones of Carles Porta, Díaz Ayuso, Gabriel Rufián, Santi Abascal, Pope Leo XIV, Sílvia Orriols, Torrente, brother-in-law Josep Maria, Oriol Junqueras, Ada Colau, Rosalía, Oliver Laxe, and the usual couple from the program investigated the case. The television proposal required an undoubted production and direction effort. And it is appreciated that they did not palm off another rehash of old sketches or musicals on us. The most striking thing was the location of the recording. It was carried out on a property so astonishingly decorated with a rococo luxury of the seventies to accentuate the burlesque caricature that the setting took all the prominence. The only reason you didn't tear your eyes out was the morbid fascination of confirming that such a house really existed. The mansion was the most hilarious, especially Soler's sky-blue bedroom.